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nar001··on Raspberry Pi Zero 3W and Pi 4 Model A spotted in device trees
Are they as well supported as the RPi? I heard software support was bad compared to the Raspberry Pis
nar001··on A font recreated from photographs of classic Commodore 64 keycaps
I'm confused, what do you mean? It seems to be in the git repo as it should be? https://github.com/szabadkai/c64-keyboard-font/tree/main/fon...
nar001··on Fixing a bricked Framework laptop
Have you seen any of the fixes people talked about in that thread? Apparently some fixed it, hopefully something works for you https://community.frame.work/t/framework-400mhz-issue/83910/
nar001··on Microsoft has released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes
I guess Oura hasn't heard the feedback about outsourcing their support/engineers yet! Enjoy knowing you made their app better, I'm sure with time it won't work anymore, sadly
nar001··on French parliament approves landmark assisted-dying bill
I'm surprised you said he couldn't afford Switzerland, I thought they weren't supposed to make money off help with dying? Are they secretly making money then, or is there paperwork that's expensive to file?
nar001··on Reynard: A real Firefox web browser for iOS 13 or later
If you want to have a browser with a different engine you need a whole different developer account org, you need to maintain two different code bases and you need to very specifically set everything up to pass all of Apple's tests, which are incredibly onerous in time and work, so it doesn't make sense for Mozilla to do so for such a small market share (hell Google doesn't either, and they're a lot bigger than them)
nar001··on Teardown: A Generic 7-Port USB 3.0 Hub That Wasn't
It's actually the importer's info from the Chinese manufacturer, not the OP, since it's the switch packaging (it'd be inside the original package they'd have received from Aliexpress)
nar001··on Bluesky Trademarks ATProto
How do you mean? As in you can run different instances or as in it's a false open protocol?
nar001··on Fable 5 is Back
Sorry this is a very bad analogy, nuclear power isn't the same as a LLM, and definitely not as dangerous either. This is ridiculous.
nar001··on Your ePub Is fine
I remember seeing stories about Adobe not being able to, or not wanting to, write a good energy efficient flash renderer for the iPhone, thus being another reason not to support it for Jobs (Adobe being of the mind that "Flash is so big, they'll have to support it" and Jobs proving otherwise)
nar001··on Donut Lab's 'solid-state' battery exposed as regular li-ion in investigation
Honestly there's lots of details so I can see why it would need to be 44 minutes, and it's still a video that also has to explain complexe schemes with multiple companies too
nar001··on Meta enables ADB on deprecated Portal devices [video]
That's true, it sucks only the Go got unlocked, I hope they let the older Quests do so too in the future, especially since I think the Q2 is going to be deprecated soon-ish too, that'd certainly be nice
nar001··on Meta enables ADB on deprecated Portal devices [video]
Interesting, does that mean we might get root support on the old unsupported Quest devices too? The Q1 is already discontinued and no more updates yet still locked down, and they did something similar for the Ofulus go, providing a rooted boot image for it

Next would be recovery tools too, so they're not paperweights

nar001··on Flatpak Will Depend on Systemd
Sorry but you're wrong, Flatpak has been around for longer than that, specifically at least 2014 and was known as xdg-app before https://github.com/alexlarsson/xdg-app/commit/a640cd365bd217...

And if you look at the history page of Flatpak, you'll see that the project has been in development in some form or another for roughly 20 years https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/wiki/Flatpak's-History

nar001··on Vivaldi 8.0
Do you have examples of websites that don't work? Both because I'm curious and also so the devs can look into it?
nar001··on How do I inform Windows that I'm writing a binary file?
I'd like to know how these "customers" even get into contact with actual people or engineers at MS, because this seems completely impossible now
nar001··on Community firmware for the Xteink X4 e-paper reader
Someone already said it, but what about TRMNL? https://trmnl.com/
nar001··on I built my own hair electrolysis machine
I agree but HN always seemed more conservative or at least less queer than the "usual", personally I'd have assumed "hilarious" was meant more in a sardonic way, a reverse of the usual than literally hilarious
nar001··on Show HN: I remade my blog into a Windows 3.1 environment
I can't seem to find it, is there something you have to do to see it?
nar001··on The Last Lights of Chernobyl's Skala Computer – Computer Recreation
Recreation of the actual computer alarms and terminals used at the Chernobyl power plant, with explanations of each lights and panels
nar001··on X Randomly Banning Users for "Inauthentic Behavior"
Isn't that just Mastodon? Why would I use Nostr instead?
nar001··on FairPhone: Industry First Nature Report
I really wish they had more community involvement, they barely seem to respond to people in the forums, and their headphones aren't open software-wise with no real feedback or way to even ask them things about them
nar001··on Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine
I'm confused, you weren't talking about what the average user would do, just about what it can? Asahi Linux is pretty good, not sure why that'd be a real issue?
nar001··on Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine
RAM has no bearing on repairability? And yes, sure stuff is soldered to the motherboard, but everything is basically modular outside of it, you can replace every big part pretty easily, and no glue, even for the battery
nar001··on MacBook Neo
The storage is fast enough to not be too much of an issue, and the basics would be mostly a web browser, a lot of things can be done with only it, and if you need to do more than web browser, text editors, you probably should want more than the Neo in the first place
nar001··on France's homegrown open source online office suite
Exactly what it says on the tin, France's gov made an office suite, online based, and video calling as an alternative/sovereign version of GSuite/Office 365
nar001··on Recreating the Chernobyl Reactor 4 control panel
Someone spent years documenting and talking to the engineers who worked at, and on the reactor at Chernobyl, and spent a LOT of time recreating it, and the care put in it is incredible, in my opinion.
nar001··on JPEG XL Test Page
Do you have any proof/more about this? I've never heard this claim and I'd like to know more
nar001··on Starlink users must opt out of all browsing data being used to train xAI models
They sold it for a lot more than it was actually worth, got actual cash from it and got a return on their investment, why wouldn't they have sold? Twitter was barely profitable when he bought it, not selling would've been crazy.
nar001··on Nova Launcher added Facebook and Google Ads tracking
The original CEO who made that promise was kicked out, and the new one didn't care to follow it, supposedly in the dev's contract but not enough, since that didn't happen
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